"We don't know if the soulfulness in their paintings came from their faith in God, or faith in their own craftsmanship. But either way, it came because they believed in something bigger than themselves...There was a modesty in these paintings that was missing from the modern era."

"But imagine instead if Van Gogh had had to waste endless hours of his short career digitizing every single drawing, painting and sketch, registering his metadata with multiple databases, filing out forms, monitoring the internet for infringements and dragging infringers into US courts to contest the diligence of their searches and proving the value of his work - which in his lifetime was zero. He'd have shot himself years earlier."

"As copyright holders of published illustrations we unite to protect our copyrights, establish transparent accountability of the reprographic royalty streams earned by American illustrators, and promote the proper licensing of our works."